The first political protest songs from 1941-1942. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Lee Hays, and other who were the Almanacs.|TALKING UNION / produced by David King Dunaway. - SERIES: Pie in the sky. - The first group in America to record what we call protest songs from 1941-1942, the Almanac Singers - Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Lee Hays, and others. Program features many of their hard-to-find recordings and includes interviews with the original members of the Almanacs, discussing communal lifestyles of the 40's, the Communist Party, their experience of overnight stardom, and the difficulties of political art. - BROADCAST: KPFA, Aug. 1979.
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